Who do you think had the better verses on The Message?

[Cave Savage]

Melle Mel, or Duke Bootee?

This might be an unpopular opinion, but I personally give the edge to Duke

 

[TheMailMan]

Tough call cuz both guys killed it .

 

[Erratic415]

I say Mel because of the last verse.

 

[Deltron]

Mel

 

[boogers]

Mel

melle mel for sure

i was under the impression he wrote the entire thing tho

 

[HollywoodP]

unpopular opinion for sure. That take is downright rotten. Duke is iconic on there, but c'mon

A child is born with no state of mind
Blind to the ways of mankind
God is smiling on you, but he's frowning too
Because only God knows what you'll go through
You'll grow in the ghetto living second-rate
And your eyes will sing a song of deep hate
The places you play and where you stay
Looks like one great big alleyway
You'll admire all the number-book takers
Thugs, pimps and pushers and the big money-makers
Driving big cars, spending twenties and tens
And you wanna grow up to be just like them, huh
Smugglers, scramblers, burglars, gamblers
Pickpocket peddlers, even panhandlers
You say, "I'm cool, huh, I'm no fool"
But then you wind up droppin' out of high school
Now you're unemployed, all null and void
Walking 'round like you're Pretty Boy Floyd
Turned stick-up kid, but look what you done did
Got sent up for a eight-year bid
Now your manhood is took and you're a maytag
Spend the next two years as a undercover faq
Being used and abused to serve like hell
'Til one day you was found hung dead in the cell
It was plain to see that your life was lost
You was cold and your body swung back and forth
But now your eyes sing the sad, sad song
Of how you lived so fast and died so young, so

Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge

 

[MurderToCassette]

So many lines in every verse are quotable, I can't choose

 

[Rhyme n Tekniq]

unpopular opinion for sure. That take is downright rotten. Duke is iconic on there, but c'mon

He wrote alot of nikkas lives before they were even born with that verse,

It's not even up for debate, Mel ascended and talked that shyt

 

[erker]

Nas

 

[Black Hans]

Melle Mel. One of my favorite verses ever

 

[Reptile]

"Tricks wanna step to Cube and then they get played
'Cause they bytchmade, pulling out a switchblade
That's kinda tri-fle 'cause that's a knife, ho
AK-47, assault ri-fle!"